William Osborn, Committee Chair; and Chairman, Northern Trust Corporation
Patrick G. Ryan, Chair of the Board of Trustees; and Chairman and CEO, Chicago 2016
Trustee Members
Nicholas D. Chabraja, Chairman and CEO, General Dynamics Corporation
D. Cameron Findlay, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Aon Corporation
Philip Harris, Partner, Jenner & Block LLP
Lester B. Knight, Founding Managing Partner, RoundTable Healthcare Partners
Edward M. Liddy, Retired Chairman and CEO, Allstate Corporation
Ann Lurie, President, Lurie Investments Inc.
Lee M. Mitchell, Managing Partner, Thoma Bravo LLC
Jane DiRenzo Pigott, Managing Director, R3 Group LLC
Patrick G. Ryan Jr., President and CEO, INCISENT Technologies
William E. Sagan, Norton LLC
Gordon I. Segal, Chairman, Crate & Barrel
Miles D. White, Chairman and CEO, Abbott
Ex Officio
John A. Canning Jr., Chairman, Madison Dearborn Partner LLC
Thomas Z. Hayward Jr., Partner, Bell Boyd & Lloyd LLP
David B. Weinberg, Chairman and CEO, Judd Enterprises Inc.
Northwestern University Faculty
L. Catherine Brinson, Jerome B. Cohen Professor of Engineering and Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department
Daniel Diermeier, IBM Distinguished Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice, Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Professor of Political Science at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and Director, Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship
Lee Epstein, Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Law
Carol D. Lee, Professor of Learning Sciences in the School of Education and Social Policy
Mark A. Ratner, Morrison Professor of Chemistry
Laurie Zoloth, Professor of Medical Humanities, Bioethics, Jewish Studies and Religion
Staff
Jeffrey C. Miller, Vice Dean & Chief Operating Officer, Feinberg School of Medicine
Beth Clifford Smith, Manager of Administrative Services, WCAS Administration
Students
Sharanya Jaidev, Junior, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences and Economics Major
Marianne Hinds Wanamaker, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Economics
Alumni Association
Leslie Donavan, President and CEO of the Starfish Aquatics Institute
Ava D. Youngblood, President and CEO of Youngblood Executive Search, Inc.
Special Advisers to the Committee
Lester Crown, Chairman, Henry Crown & Company
Howard Trienens, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Committee Staff
Marilyn McCoy, Vice President for Administration and Planning
Megan Blackwelder, Assistant to the Vice President for Administration and Planning